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German verb · CEFR B1

abgelehnt

Meaning in English: rejected, turned down

Rank 3,582 of 5,000verbLevel B1

This is a form of ablehnen, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.

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Example

Mein Antrag wurde leider abgelehnt.

Unfortunately my application was rejected.

How common is abgelehnt?

abgelehnt is number 3,582 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 43,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,578üblichusual, customary
  2. 3,579Willenwill (accusative, dative)
  3. 3,580ordentlichtidy, neat; proper
  4. 3,581SyrienSyria
  5. 3,582abgelehntrejected, turned down
  6. 3,583zukünftigefuture
  7. 3,584Räumlichkeitenpremises, rooms
  8. 3,585optimiertoptimised
  9. 3,586der Einzugmoving in; entry

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